Improvement in travelling-bags



WILLIAM -ROEMER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Lem/rs Patent No. 83,212, datei october 20,1868.` I

mPRcvnMnNT 1N mvnLLINGfBAGs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

M To all whom it may concern: m, and has plates e w attached to itsunder side, so as Beit known that I, WILLIAM ROEMERIOf Newark, v to formthereby a 'recess capable of receiiiing the stain the county of Essex,in the State of New Jersey, ples A end B- Iosteed of mekmg she feoessWholly have invented a new and useful Improvement 'in'Irav- Ul the '00PPert of solo frame, the bottom Plates i and* felling-Bags and I dohereby declare that the followw may be Pelty hinged downwards,Tedlleillg thereby ing is a full and exact description thereof,reference the bulge in 'ehe fleme- The smilies 01 Clamps A and being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to let. B fasten the ends or cornersof the frame together, when said bagis packed very full, so as toprevent ters of reference marked thereon.

Figure I represents a, from; View 0f a frame for a thereby any articlesfrom falling out of the same, and elieve the lock of the bag of anytravelling-bag or valise with my improvienent; at the Sam@ time f FigureII is a, top View 0f the Same; undue 0r excess of strain. These staplesor clamps Figure III is a section at the centre of the staple efe medeof strong Wife, 'end may be other turned A; and down at each end, asstaple A, (see Figs. II and IIL) Figure IV isv a section attlie centreof the staple B. of they may be mede Wmo only one end turned" and Thisinvention is an improvement 0f a, Similar inthe other end rivetedaganistthe edge of the top of vention, for which vLetters Patent were grantedto me the frame, -S Staple B- (Se Figs. Il ldv on the 31st day ofJuiy,1s66, and consisten the @0n- What I 01mm as @y mventwn, fwd dem@'G0 Secure struction of the frame by bulging the upper part of byLetters Potent: ls the frameV so as to form, in connection with astraight A ffeme fo? tl'eyeu'llg-begs of Valises bemg bulge@ orpartly-bulged plate, attached to the @denon inner at n and m, to form,in combination with plates 'v and side of said top part, the bearing forthe staple, whereby the appearance of the bag, when nislied, isimproved, staples A of B', to relieve the look from semina es 'dei ed asherein specified.v

and the labor and expense of manufacturing the same selfbedf eonstfletedend errang are considerably reduced. v i

In the accompanying drawings, C represents the Witnesses: iron frame ofa travelling-bag or valise. .A The top part HENRY E. BLOEDER, of thisframe is, at those places where it is desiredto LOUIS STUMM. A piace thestaples, bulged outward, as shown at and i WILLIAM ROEMER.

w, attached on the under side, ,recesses or bearings for

